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Bolshevist|ˈbɒlʃɪvɪst| [a. Russ. bol′shevíst (now disused) Bolshevik.] A Bolshevik; a supporter of Bolshevism. Also transf., esp. as a term of reproach for an out-and-out revolutionary. Also attrib. or as adj.
191719th Cent. Dec. 1106 The reign of Bolshevists and Terrorists. 1920Edin. Rev. July 33 The Government of Styria, which, having a large industrial population of its own, is particularly sensitive to the ‘Bolshevist Peril’. 1920Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 513/1 Packing the meetings with Bolshevist agents. 1922E. Wallace Flying Fifty-Five xxxiv. 204, I call a horse a Bolshevist when he doesn't run twice alike. 1926W. J. Todd Port v. 83 Cheese (of not too bolshevist a nature) prepares the palate, but cheese is too violent a preparation for a fine old Port. 1940Tablet 4 May 417/1 Under the Bolshevist-Nazi dictatorship, two hundred million human beings are forced to live deprived of the foundations on which Western civilization was built. Hence Bolsheˈvistic a., of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Bolshevists; ˌBolsheˈvistically adv.
1920Glasgow Herald 14 May 9 London has established the alarming precedent of applying such words as ‘horrible’ and ‘Bolshevistic’ to the well-intentioned proposals of certain pious Churchmen. 1920Punch 13 Oct. 282/1 In these Bolshevistic days I should have preferred of course to have started off with ‘Comrade’ or ‘Brother’. 1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 69 Never, bolshevistically To be able to stand for all these! |